As an ex vinyl head, this current wave is yet another fad. It'll be here today, and largely gone tomorrow.
Yes I like the artwork (why digital files can't seem to come with decent large front cover artwork is beyond me circa 2015!), yes I like the feel (seeing touching smelling the stuff, and the feel of queuing it up makes me quite nostalgic).
BUT, really the lack of convenience is THE major flaw in physical media. I still have ~2k records (used to have 3 times that) and never really listen to them as they're not easy to get to when I desire to listen to something. And having moved several times in recent years, dealing with them when moving home is an absolutely MASSIVE pain in the backside both in terms of effort (packing them and breaking backs moving them in the process as they weigh an absolute TON!) and cost (decent moving packaging adds up, as does the hardcore shelving they require).
If you want to spend money on expensive music, buy lossless of some kind (CD or better). Storage is becoming cheaper and more plentiful each year or so, and bandwidth availability for Tidal-esque lossless streaming similarly. I have most of my stuff not on vinyl digitised to ALAC in iTunes now with multi-TB's of centralised storage available to grow (and for back-ups!).
That's the future for audio heads, as it's the music quality that matters, not the medium the stuff happens to be on. Vinyl is not better, just different, in sound quality terms (dare I say "warm", lol!), mainly because they need separate mastering to the vinyl format. But that's a dying art form anyway as labels/artists don't have the money for such frivolity in this day and age, to serve the minor sales they'd get on vinyl.
If you're starting out the vinyl journey, please stop NOW. Trust me, you won't regret it when the true cost, effort, and lack of convenience of vinyl record ownership hits you later on down the road!
/here endeth thy rant!
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